Brought to my attention this morning: Two episodes about Jewish Rohatyn on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio: http://www.nashholos.com/ukrainian-jewish-heritage-rohatyn-part-1/ http://www.nashholos.com/ukrainian-jewish-heritage-rohatyn-part-2-2/ The web radio station also has a page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NashHolos Warm regards, Marla Ця стаття також доступна українською. [Note: This report was originally sent by Marla to the Rohatyn District Research Group.]
Just to report that 25 matzevot were recovered on April 1st from the private garden in Rohatyn on Ivan Franko Street. These were known to exist and Mr. Vorobets was waiting for their removal. Jason Francisco – who is making photographs in town and communicating with me for an exhibit opening in Krakow on June 18th at the Galicia Jewish…
We had a report a earlier this month from sources in Rohatyn that the human remains found in 2012 underneath the Ukrainian Church on the rynek had been quietly buried by representatives of the Church and Rabbi Kolesnik of Ivano-Frankivsk, in Rohatyn’s new Jewish cemetery at the north end of town. This was consistent with our wishes, and thanks to…
I am happy to announce that the Rohatyn Matzevot Memorial Project is now an official project under the auspices of Gesher Galicia. Since Gesher Galicia is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation, donations by US residents is tax deductible. After the acceptance of this project by Gesher Galicia, I created the Rohatyn Jewish Heritage website. This public website provides background information on…
Another full day and a lot of information to tell you. First, in Ivano-Frankivsk this morning, Alex Denysenko and I met for 2 hours with Rabbi Moyshe Leib Kolesnik to discuss a number of Rohatyn items. Ця стаття також доступна українською. We not only filled him in on the headstone project, but also raised the issue of the human remains…
It has been 6 months to the day since my last visit to Rohatyn. Since then, [our group] has launched a project for the commemoration of Rohatyn’s lost pre-War Jewish community. I am in Rohatyn with Lviv artist, architect, and friend Andrij Bojarov, with whom I have been working on ideas for this memorial project. The project envisions incorporating Jewish…
Dobry den from Prague to Rohatyners, Fellow researcher and dear friend Edgar Hauster had a terrific idea last night which I would like to raise with the group. As you are all probably already aware, across Europe and America there is the idea of “twinning” cities and towns. You can read more about the underlying philosophy of this idea on…
Hi, there. The 35-minute TV program developed by Renaud Lavergne for France’s national television station France 2 was aired yesterday (July 4th, 2013). The Rohatyn segment is only about 4 minutes near the end, but the entire program is an interesting group portrait of ‘surveyors’ of Jewish memory landscapes. The Rohatyn segment was filmed with me, Jay, Alex Denysenko, and…
MANAGING JEWISH IMMOVABLE HERITAGE IN EUROPE From April 23-25, 2013, I attended a conference at the Jewish Community Center in Kraków, Poland on Jewish heritage management. The conference was a follow-up to an earlier seminar on Jewish heritage management held in Bratislava, Slovakia in March 2009 by Jewish community representatives and experts from a dozen countries. Ця стаття також доступна…
Jay and I are at the Lviv airport flying home today to Paris, and while here I want to give a report of our day in Rohatyn yesterday with Alex Denysenko and Jeremy Borovitz, along with France 2 TV reporter Renaud Lavergne and his cameraman Vincent Barral. As usual, Alex arranged for Vitaly to be our driver in his large…